Apple Podcast Rankings - Canada - Documentary

Discover the Top 100 Podcasts in Canada

Explore the latest data-driven rankings of the top 100 podcasts in Canada. Our comprehensive analysis covers the best Apple Podcasts across various categories, providing insights into the most popular shows, episode lengths, publication frequencies, and leading hosting services. Whether you're a podcast creator or an avid listener, find the top-ranked podcasts that everyone is tuning into right now.

Podcast charts from 13 May 2026

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05/13/2026

Average data

Episodes: 168

Frequency: every 39 days

Duration: 00:44:18

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

2. CBC (3 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Megaphone (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (10 shows)

4. BBC (9 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	157	Acast	43
2	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
3	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
4	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
5	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
6	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
7	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
8	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	73
9	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
10	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
11	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
12	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
13	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
14	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
17	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
18	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
19	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	66	Acast	83
20	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
21	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	103	BBC	38
22	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
23	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
24	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
25	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
26	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
27	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
28	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
29	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
30	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
31	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
32	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
33	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
34	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	22	ART19	73
35	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
36	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
37	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
38	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
39	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
40	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	140	N/A	N/A
41	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
42	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
43	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
44	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
45	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
46	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	95	WideOrbit	68
47	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
48	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
49	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
50	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	376	Audion	58
51	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
52	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	75	Spreaker	43
53	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
54	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
55	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
56	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	103	Acast	73
57	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
58	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
59	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
60	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1195	Acast	59
61	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
62	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
63	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
64	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
65	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
66	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	412	BBC	28
67	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
68	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
69	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
70	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
71	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	151	Spotify for Podcasters	52
72	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
73	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
74	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
75	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
76	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
77	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
78	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
79	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
80	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
81	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
82	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
83	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
84	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
85	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
86	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
87	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
88	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
89	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
90	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
91	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
92	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
93	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
94	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	70	Spotify for Podcasters	28
95	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
96	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	350	Simplecast	78
97	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	42
98	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	272	PRX	43
99	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	124	Buzzsprout	53
100	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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